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Draymen · week 12 · 1985

31 touchdowns and counting

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Bishop Thunderpaw WR
Draymen

R. Cordell found Bishop Thunderpaw 2 times. That is 31 together, and nobody in this league has anything better. They have played 10 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

The ledger, after nine seasons: 4,411 yards, thirty-one scores. There was a 1,026-yard year in there. This is not it.

He turned twenty-nine this year. He is from Newark, New Jersey. Ask anybody: he talks constantly and means about half of it. Nobody planned any of it. He was a mid-round pick who was the fourth-best player on his own college team.

Draymen are 5-6 through twelve weeks. Tiny Mothersbaugh is in year eight of it.

He has never once been photographed smiling on a sideline, and always has.

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